25-gauge sutureless vitrectomy versus 20-gauge vitrectomy for the repair of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

Retina

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-450

  Von Fricken, Manfred A ^a,b   Kunjukunju, Nancy ^b   Weber, Charles ^c   Ko, George ^a,b  

^a Retina Group of Washington   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

20 gauge vitrectomy; 25 gauge vitrectomy; Complications.; Hypotony; Retinal detachment repair; Sutureless vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EVALUATION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOTONY MACULOPATHY; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA SURGERY; RETINOPEXY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEGMATOGENOUS RETINAL DETACHMENT; STANDARD; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURELESS VITRECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; BLEEDING; CATHETERIZATION; CHOROID; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINA TEAR; SPECTACLES; VASCULARIZATION;

CATHETERIZATION; CHOROID; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 66149117476     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318196b19c     Document Type: Article

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